True understanding Quotes

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

He worships God who knows him.